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Oil’d (by Chris Harmon)

I saw that Greener Leith is dealing with the proposed biomass plant in Leith. Another is proposed for Grangemouth near where I live. I am glad that the sanity of growing trees abroad for import to run a power station is being questioned. It’s a lunacy which just compounds the problems caused by our over consumption, the pillaging of third world resources and the removal of land from habitat protection and agriculture for a spurious use. It’s certainly not ‘green’ because trees are technically a renewable resource.

After the majority government that was supposed to be an electoral impossibility, Scots are starting to get their head round what the new SNP administration means for them. In the third sector – Scotland’s charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises – we are watching intently as the newly elected MSPs take their seats.